... and there very actions in order to acquire the latest and juiciest pieces of gossip. There exists a link between Foucault's use of Bentham's Panopticon, in that the media acts as a ".... machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in a central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.(Owen 1994 ... are confronted with their own mirror images they will continue to measure themselves against an inhuman perfection. (Dittrich, Liz Ph.D.) "The Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to c...

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